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Ah, gentle reader. I am reaching a point where I’m starting to think Do I need to buy any more books? or Do I want to buy any more books?. The stacks of Nogglestead are crammed full with little room for further additions. And at the rate at which I’m reading small paperbacks now that […]
After a cross country meet conveniently located in Branson, Missouri, we headed to the Sparta branch of the Christian County Library for the last of its Friends of the Library Book sales for the year. Instead of having sales twice a year at the Ozark branch of the library as in the olden days, they […]
As I mentioned, I was in Davenport, Iowa, over the weekend. As it happened, the Source Book Store was only a block and a half from our hotel (and a block from the conference center), so I stopped in there. It’s 5000 square feet of books across several floors in an old building. The proprietor, […]
On Saturday, we went to a cross country meet in Lebanon, about an hour or so northeast of Springfield off of I-44. You know what was also just off of Interstate 44? Half-price day at the book sale. So my beautiful wife and I went; the youngest remained in Lebanon with his team, and the […]
I’d circled this day on my calendar. Well, not really. Although I do still have a wall calendar upon which very little is written, I didn’t circle this day. But I had looked up when Rublecon was this year, and I remembered; and after celebrating my oldest son’s 18th birthday at the Red Lobster, I […]
After a martial arts class on Saturday morning, I decided I was going to do a throwback leisure activity and go to a book signing at ABC Books since I was going to the gun shop anyway, and it was on the way [Ed note: The gun shop is not, in fact, on the way; […]
It has been five years since I’ve been to a Friends of the Christian County Library book sale. In the old days, they were held in Ozark, Missouri, (and Clever had its own little library which also had an annual book sale). In 2019, I found my way to the new Nixa HQ of the […]
Gentle reader, I would like to say that I make it to this annual sale every year, but that might not be the case, as I only have posts for it in 2016 and 2017. But that might mean that the gleanings in other years have not been that good as far as books and […]
Ah, gentle reader, as I recently had to tell you I bought a book recently because I had not done a proper Good Book Hunting post containing it (Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, mentioned in the book report for Lake of the Ozarks). So I have vowed to do a Good Book […]
ABC Books had another book signing yesterday, so of course I went. I brought along my youngest who came along only because of the promise of lunch at a restaurant (which is kind of a tradition). So up we went in the early afternoon. I was pleased to see the martial arts section was restocked. […]
Saturday found us at the zoo for my beautiful wife’s last event as a member of the park board, and the zoo is right by ABC Books, and ABC Books was having a book signing with members of the mystery writers’ group again, so we stopped by. I did not even go into the stacks […]
Yesterday, LaDonna Greiner finally visited ABC Books to sign copies of her book I’m Here For A Purpose; as I mentioned in that book report, I had already purchased two signed copies of the book at two other book signings. But as I’d recommended she have a book signing at ABC Books as well, of […]
I’m sorry; when I am on vacation, time kind of loses its meaning. I mean, I know we went to the Bookmarkish Emporium on Saturday, June 24, but I am not clear on which day we went to the Fairfield Bay Library and got great bags of books for $5 each. Was it June 27? […]
After finishing a morning of CPR training and certification, I headed north to ABC Books for a book signing conveniently scheduled for 1-3pm which gave me a chance to gorge on sushi and Chinese food beforehand. Which set the countdown timer to naptime, as I have conditioned myself to have a siesta shortly after lunch […]
ABC Books had a book signing yesterday, so after a triathlon, my boys and I headed to that part of town. They came along because we planned to demolish the nearby Sushi buffet, which we did prior to the late-starting 12:00 book signing. The author in residence wrote a book about a local attorney who […]
Friends, on Saturday, I went to ABC Books with gift cards in hand. I received a $50 card for Christmas, and I have $34 remaining on a Visa gift card, so I tucked three remaining $20 “You need a gift now?” gift cards (the “You need a gift now?” gifts previously had been bubble wands, […]
Saturday, I did a martial arts confirmation test and foolishly went to ABC Books and then the Library Center before eating lunch, which left me ravenous for an hour while traveling. ABC Books had four members of Sleuth’s Ink, a local writing group, in to sign books, and Dean Curtis was at the library signing […]
So we had a little time to kill after going to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival for a bit on Saturday. As we were booked to stay in Overland Park, Kansas, a city of 200,000 people, I hoped we would find some used book stores. But only one, and to be honest, I confused the […]
ABC Books hosted James R. Wilder, whose books are set near where I went to high school. I bought the first three books last June right after our De Soto vacation. I read the first, Terror Near Town, earlier this year, but I haven’t gotten to the others yet. Which comes to a total of […]
For the third weekend in a row, ABC Books had a book signing. This time, Marshfield’s Randy H. Greer came in to sign copies of his new book Buff Lamb: Lion of the Ozarks about a lawman in Christian County (which is only a mile and a half south of me; if I take the […]